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Ah…

He remembered this little enclosure. A hidden little cave in Snowdin. Warm. Away from the cold, dreadfully quiet snow. He sat in the center, gloved hand spreading out onto the partly luminescent grass…

There was a door. He could walk through it. It should be locked, he knew that, but he also knew that he could walk through it. He could.

… The mushrooms provided light. They were bioluminescent. That was the word for it. He'd watched you explore this place. He could walk through the door...

But would you be waiting for him on the other side of it? There was only one way to find out.

He stood.

Where did you go? Why did you leave him with no trace? No trail or breadcrumbs to find you?

He stepped up to the door.

He would see you again, one way or another. He would bring you back to him.

He opened the door.

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An endless expanse of nothingness. Where did you go? How did he get here again? This... wasn't Snowdin. This wasn't his Underground.

He walked forward, trying to find some sign of something -... something was watching him.

"What a peculiar variant."

He turned around, narrowing his eye sockets at the bone chilling voice. There was a shadow on the ground of a person, but no one was there to cast it. In its standing silhouette on the floor, only a mouth was on the shadow's face.

"You seem lost. How did you get here?"

... He... wasn't sure, if he was honest. He only continued to stare at the shadow.

"Then do you know why you're here?"

Why was he here?

"Why don't you come with me? We can find what you're looking for together."

Find... find what he was looking for. Where did you go? He turned his skull left and right, turning away from the shadow and walking away, wandering aimlessly as it followed him, walking beside him. He cast no shadow in this place.

"Oh, are you going to try and find it by yourself? Why don't I come along? I'm so very curious about what you're looking for."

It followed him until he began to become irritated, his skull pounding as he stopped suddenly, his hand going up to clutch the side of his head before he glared at the shadow on the floor.

"leave me alone." He hissed.

"Alone?" It asked, tilting its head, its grin growing wider. "You wish to be alone?"

"no." The plea left his teeth before he could realize it did. He was shocked by his own mind's desperation. How long had he been wandering...?

"Then why don't I stay with you?" Viscous tar began to leak out of the edges of the shadow, wispy tendrils slowly flickering out. "Why don't you stay with me?"

His eye sockets widened, and he took a step back as something emerged from the floor. Like climbing out from a cliff's edge, a pile of black tar pulled itself into a material body. It dripped. Dripped. Drip.

"My name is Nightmare." It was another skeleton, covered head to toe in black tar, a single turquoise eye light burning in its void-like eye socket. "Who might you be?"

Stay away from him!